A Taste of Africa from Malawi

[dubi]

Happy New Year @Greencedar You're also doing an amazing job with your Malawi and Zamaldelica grow reaching mid flowering!

I have a question regarding hours of light. I’ve flowered hazes/thais on shorter light regiments (11/13 or 10/14). Would using these light regiments with more tame sativas like the New Killer Malawi pheno result in a less potent final product or is it only yield that suffers a bit? I’ve heard some stuff about plants expressing different traits with different light schedules (DJ short talks about this) but I don’t have the experience to know how true this is. This might be a question for Dubi but it would be great to hear from anyone else that has played around with this and ace genetics.

Pure Hazes or pure Thais need to finish under 11/13 or 10/14 light cycles; otherwise, they remain stuck in perpetual early flowering stretch under a constant 12/12. That’s not the case for Malawi, which is a much more tamed line, especially the feminized version. Shorter flowering Malawi expressions perform great indors under 12/12, while the taller, longer flowering phenotypes benefit from switching to 11/13 for the final two/thirds of the flowering period.

 

[Tom Kha Gai]

Malawi reg, partially pollinated, This are some of my phenos, 11 weeks in flower, still have some days to go, but this one will be ripe next two weeks. Love it.

 

[Tom Kha Gai]

I have some thoughts to add. This is the first time I grow the Malawi and I can't imagine, that this kind of potency and dankness developed without any human influence. So, what is a landrace? I believe landraces are feral cultivars from past times. I believe humanship is breeding with Cannabis since they started breeding with cereals. And I would guess someone breeded and selected this Malawi. But when? And who? Nobody knows. But I can't believe just nature brought up this potency.

When humanship started to breed with grain, 12 or 13 thousand years ago, there was just einkorn wheat and our wheat plants today are high yielder compared to that. And I guess it is the same with cannabis. I guess it is 12 or 13 thousand years too late to collect pure landraces, but I'm not sad about that. I don't want to start breeding with 'einkorn wheat'. I'm very happy someone already did this job for me.

 

[dubi]

Glad you are loving going through the selection of your Malawi regular pack @Tom Kha Gai good looking expressions. If it's not fully seeded, you'll soon be able to experience the power of our legendary Malawi line!

 

[Tom Kha Gai]

If it's not fully seeded,

No, of cause not, I need buds to smoke. I separate the males, collect some pollen and pollinate a bit here and a bit there. Mostly the lower buds, but not the main colas. I just need a couple of seeds für my own stash. I don't want to feed the birds.

I am very curious about the Malawi and I am very happy that I can preserve this variety.

 

[dubi]

Happy to announce that MALAWI REGULAR is back in stock:

https://www.aceseeds.org/en/seeds/malawi-regular-seeds/

 

[Tom Kha Gai]

Is this still the P4 or is this a P5?

 

[a.m.a.]

hello everybody lovely malawi fem 10 days from repot 30lt to 50lt, 53 days 18/6 19 days 12/12, about her life alongside a smh fem around week and a half after their first transplant at 1st month leaves started to look unhealthy, new sprouts started to yellowing and I thought they needed fertilizer so fed them biovega and minimum calmag a few times over the weeks and this malawi took it worse than smh, in last transplant realized the substrate was ⅔ dried from bottom up and watered it by the sides. always ruined plants unknowly with overwatering and this time trying to do it right underwater them unpurposely, in the fabric pot I made some cuts to touch soil humidity, too heavy to lift them.
please I need advice on how much to water these 50lt pots substrate canna terra with 20% humus, 400w hps that recently increased the distance leaves looking heated, enough space to keep growing tent wide open except for last 3 hours darkness, photoperiod match outside day and night, dry summer average outside temps during day 30°c 12°c at nights, dpto is cool windows wide open with mosquito net, by the way placing the plants full sun is posible because neighbour in front seem to be on vacation.
thanks a lot in advance for reading and comment.

 

[dubi]

Is this still the P4 or is this a P5?

Its still the exact the same genetic recipe for the regular version for the last decade: 3rd generation Malawi male (brother of New Killer female) pollinating mainly Old Malawi Killer female, New Malawi Killer female, and also including a bit of offsrping from 3rd generation fruity Malawi female, so Malaawi regular release is basically between P2-(mostly) P4.

 

[dubi]

Hola @a.m.a. if the plants were recently up potted into fresh soil and are showing signs of overfeeding, stop feeding for a while. Just water with the correct pH and an EC around 0.8, maybe add a root stimulator if you want, and see how they evolve.

When watering, do it abundantly until water drains from the holes, then wait until the soil dries out before watering again. Respecting the wet/dry cycles is key to a healthy root system and microbial ecosystem.

 

[a.m.a.]

ok Dubi thanks a lot, I haven't fertilized since before transplant, will follow your advice on waterings, gracias por todo

 

[holygrailkush]

Hi everybody!

My malawi is 7 weeks old. She get 12/12 light from seed. I toped her at week 5,since then she streched a lot.
There are just few sign of flowering.
(a few pistills at the stems)
Is it normal,that a 7 weeks old Malawi just a few signs of flowering has?
Should i switch to 11/13 or let be more patient?

She has woody smell maybe...but not to strong yet. I can't identify this smell yet, but i like it !

This is my first sativa ever.

Thanks for help!

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[dubi]

Welcome to ICMag @holygrailkush and thanks for your support.

For some reason, i cannot see your picture. Yes, it's normal if she only has a few pistils.
Sativas take more time to flower and to reach sexual maturity.

 

[Tom Kha Gai]

Is it normal,that a 7 weeks old Malawi just a few signs of flowering has?

Yes, it depends on the phenotype you get. I was lucky and out of a twelve seed pack regulars I got 9 ladies and 3 males. All plants are still standing at day 93 from flip, but most plants will be done next days. One plant looks like she will flower 18+ weeks. This plant needed 4 weeks from flip until there were the first pistils visible at all and I could determine sex. Another will most likely flower something between 16 - 18 weeks. So this is pretty normal for sats.

 

[Tom Kha Gai]

Its still the exact the same genetic recipe for the regular version for the last decade: 3rd generation Malawi male (brother of New Killer female) pollinating mainly Old Malawi Killer female, New Malawi Killer female, and also including a bit of offsrping from 3rd generation fruity Malawi female, so Malaawi regular release is basically between P2-(mostly) P4.

I'm very curious about my own seeds, because this is the first time I've grown seeds from a seed-resistant plant and not a hybrid. But it will still be a few months before I start the next cultivation. Will there be more phenotypes in the next generation than in the parent generation?

In terms of appearance, the longest flowering pheno is my favorite. Could it be that these phenos are the most potent? I mean the long flowering phenos? In any case, this is my best yielding plant.

 

[Tom Kha Gai]

Day 109

 

[jonesfam7715]

Thought I'd share a Pic of my malawi flower rosin, still on the fresh side, just starting to batter up, 11 gram chunk
2 nights ago, small one was second press

Now

After it cures the rest of the way I wanna try mechanical seperation, never tried on flower rosin before.

 

[jonesfam7715]

Had a hard time staying out of it long enough for cure but, ace malawi flower rosin mechanical separations worked well

 

[dubi]

Looking killer by end of flowering @Tom Kha Gai

Will there be more phenotypes in the next generation than in the parent generation?

When inbreeding an already inbred line for another generation, you will easily lose genetic diversity unless many plants are open-pollinated to produce the next generation.

To answer your question, it depends on the different phenotypes within the inbred line, how inbred it already is, and which selections were favored. It also matters whether reproduction was done through open pollination with multiple parent plants or through the other extreme in 1:1 pairings, as well as whether the chosen parents were similar or divergent, etc.

Most of the times, longer flowering expressions within a sativa line produce the most psychoactive individuals, but you never know, it's always worth paying close attention to every single female, especially when judging/evaluating a new line.

You are on sativa hash heaven @jonesfam7715